Theme: TEDxKingLincolnBronzeville Drive-In! Kwanzaa 365: Driving the Conversation Towards Liberation

Join us for TEDxKLB Drive-In! 🎬🚕🚗🚘🚖 Listen to stories about how we all can live the Kwanzaa principles throughout the year while social distancing!

We have teamed up with The Lincoln Theatre and WOSU to stream live TEDxKLB talks to the Ohio State Outpatient Care East parking lot. There will be food trucks, goodies and much more. We are intentional about pushing to the surface the ideas, narratives and hard work everyday diverse people are creating, sharing and living to make our community more informed. Our goal is to highlight the unique and creative lives of this diverse neighborhood and show how their experiences connect to national and global narratives.

OSU Carepoint East Hospital
543 Taylor Avenue
Columbus, Ohio, 43203
United States

Adrienne Hood

I am a Columbus native and a graduate of Columbus City Schools. I have three adult children and three grandchildren who are the center of my life. I have my BS Criminal Justice Administration and MA Human Services with a minor in Christian Ministries. I believes that communities strength is determined by the support and integrity of its residents. I am an active member of the Air Force Reserves and will retire December 2020.

Eboni Partlow

As a Black, Queer, Woman, I've witnessed first-hand the grave social, political, health, and economic injustices this country commits against Black people. As an advocate and servant to my community, I'm committed to addressing racial disproportionality and combating systemic inequities that impact marginalized lives. I currently serve as an Administrator for Franklin County Children Services and Board President for Black, Out, & Proud, a local nonprofit providing safe spaces, education, advocacy, and inspiration for Black LGBTQIA+ people in Central Ohio. I'm also the former Director of the Malaika Mentor Program, a culturally specific program for Black girls involved with children services and the juvenile justice system. I've led successful organizing efforts on behalf of Black girls, People of Color, and the LGBTQIA+ community here in Franklin County, and aim to continue to advance trauma-informed and culturally responsive care, curriculums, and services, both through my day job and community engagement efforts.

J. Nwando Olayiwola

Dr. Olayiwola is Professor and Chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, where she is also the founder of the Center for Primary Care Innovation and Transformation. Dr. Olayiwola has devoted her clinical practice, research and programmatic leadership to harnessing technology to increase access to care for underserved and disenfranchised populations, improving health equity, addressing social determinants of health and racism, health care redesign, anti-racism and anti-oppression, empowerment of women and girls, and community health. She is the founder of the Minority Women Professionals are MVPs national professional development program. She was a Commonwealth Fund/Harvard University Fellow in Minority Health Policy and received her master’s degree in public health from the Harvard School of Public Health. She obtained her undergraduate and medical degrees from The Ohio State University and completed her residency at Columbia University/New York Presbyterian Hospital.

Jameel Paulin

My work is primarily about transformations: new worlds, new relations, and new forms of being. It is about how descendants of the African diaspora have transformed the very grounds of being, meaning and relatedness through the framework of afrofuturism. As a visual artist who grew up during the overlapping eras of ‘golden age of hip-hop’ and the digital age, my experience of afrofuturism has primarily been shaped by the evolution of personal digital/information technology and hip-hop music. I use the emergent technology of virtual reality to create immersive audio-visual worlds influenced by afrofuturist themes and West African symbolism. By embracing the digital media, and creating digitally immersive realities, that are visually akin to the sonic environments of Coltrane, J Dilla, and Flying Lotus, I aim to situate hip-hop aesthetics within a tradition of black liberation aesthetics and to employ a kind of “hip-hop” method within my own creative practice.

Jonathan Moody

Moody Nolan’s newly appointed CEO, Jonathan Moody, is driven by a passion to continue his father’s legacy and approaches design with an overall goal of having a major impact on communities in need. Under his leadership, Moody Nolan has grown to over 230 employees and 12 offices across the nation. The firm’s designs have now won over 300 design citations. Jonathan has helped continue and extend the firm’s position as the largest African-American owned architecture firm. For Jonathan, architecture is a medium through which people can be connected and inspired by giving tangible being into ideas. Over the last several years, he has passionately devoted himself to community service through mentoring and education programs focused on developing underserved youth.

Marvin Ferguson

Marvin Ferguson has 16 years of pharmacy practice experience. His previous role was with a Specialty Pharmacy as the Oncology and Growth Hormone lead. His focus was on patients with rare and complex conditions that required specialized care and therapies. This role included supporting members, their families, and caregivers by providing education and support to manage their medication therapy. Marvin’s current role of Pharmacy Manager Clinical programs assures effective and compliant medication therapy management, opioid safety, care management and adherence programs. In 2008 Marvin Founded IMONB LLC properties that provides housing to low income populations. In 2018 Marvin founded Let’s Get Healthy Cleveland, a 501c3 Nonprofit that provides clinical programs, education, and resources to all communities. He currently sits as the Vice President of the 100 Black Men of Greater Cleveland and the Vice President of the Kappa Tau Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc.

Noah Mitchell

I currently work as the Director of Strategic Partnerships & Student Experience at Per Scholas Columbus. Per Scholas provides work force training for underserved communities preparing them to gain jobs with a higher livable wage. I have a masters degree in Higher Ed, and I am in the last semester of Seminary, where I will obtain a Mdiv with a specialization in the Black Church & African Diaspora. I am an author, public speaker, and advocate for marginalized groups. My specific resource in seminary has been focused on the LGBTQ+ community in the Black Church, and the issues of oppression found within. I have spent over a decade working in churches from various settings.

Olivia Nathan

Dr. Olivia G. Nathan is a native of Columbus, OH. Dr. Nathan completed her undergraduate studies at Spelman College (Atlanta, GA) where she graduated with a Bachelor of Science, in Biology. In 2017, Dr. Nathan received her Doctorate of Pharmacy from the University of California, San Francisco where she gained extensive experience in the San Francisco Bay Area working with the HIV/AIDS community. A patient focused Pharmacist sincere in delivering culturally competent care to patients in underserved communities; Dr. Nathan is passionate about improving lives and preventing illness through the appropriate use of medication for underserved populations. Dr. Nathan is equally passionate about access to healthcare for Deaf and hard of hearing patients. She uses her fluency in American Sign Language to champion for their rights.

Tifani Kendrick

Tifani Kendrick is an inspirationalist who writes, performs spoken word, and creatively coaches people to live in love and in their purpose. Often referred to as a breath of fresh air, she highlights trauma and resilience, self love and relationships, faith and other qualities of life in her work. Tifani Kendrick is an Ohio University graduate and established D’Light House Family Center, Inc. to strengthen families and empower youth. She is currently a Service Connector with Urban Strategies, advocating for families to receive the community support they need in order to thrive. She co-authored The Resilience Factor to share how losing her mother to domestic violence led to her greatest awakening. As Tifani Kendrick prioritizes leaving an inheritance of abundance for her two children, she creatively resuscitates others into a greater sense of self worthiness, personal purpose, and connectivity.

Valerie Hawes

Valerie L. Hawes is a Global Learning & Development Professional. Valerie has nearly 20 years of speaking/training and development experience working in both the public and private sectors. She has exceptional facilitation experience having delivered hundreds of presentations in areas including professional development, leadership development, performance management, management training programs, customer service, sexual harassment, and diversity & inclusion. Valerie’s work history includes managing the training functions for organizations in the consulting, transit and cruise industries. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Park University in Social Psychology and a Master of Human Resources Management from Keller Graduate School of Management.

Yolanda Owens

I am a homegrown Buckeye. I grew up in Southfield, daughter of a first-generation American mother and a farm-raised father, and a product of Columbus City Schools. I love food. As the first Black/Latinx president of the College of Food, Agriculture and Environmental Sciences Alumni Society Board, I am an advocate of healthy food access. Much of my career has been to connect youth to healthy food. Whether it is teaching about how to grow food, what to eat, what career choices they have, or selling it to their schools, I want to connect the dots between Black people and our food. I believe that we need to be sitting at the decision-making table when it comes to Ohio’s number-one economic contributor. As a wife and mother of two little girls, I believe that it is important to teach them the power that lies within a seed.